Textile Talk with Victoria Merness

Victoria Merness creates folk art embroidery from old family photographs, vintage postage stamps and a newly discovered archive of relatives she never knew she had. As our newest tutor at the School of Stitched Textiles, she joins us on our Textile Talk podcast to discuss: → How a tutor's “paint or stitch” ultimatum shaped Victoria's signature technique → Why she prints photographs onto fabric instead of embroidering from scratch → The childhood stamp collection that became a range of embroidery kits → How Little House of Victoria launched in the middle of lockdown with no financial safety net → The chance flick through TV channels that led to appearances on Hochanda and Sewing Street → The newly discovered family photo album that traces her Spanish and Argentinian roots → Why Victoria believes confidence, not talent, is the real barrier to learning embroidery → Life and community inside a historic Saddleworth cotton mill studio This episode is captioned for deaf and hard of hearing viewers. --------------------------------------------- 📖 View her work & read more here: https://www.sofst.org/victoria-mernes... 🎓 Explore SST's City & Guilds accredited courses: https://www.sofst.org/courses/ --------------------------------------------- 🎧 Prefer to listen? Find this episode of Textile Talk on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major podcast platforms. --------------------------------------------- About Textile Talk Textile Talk is the podcast from SST, the School of Stitched Textiles, the UK's leading provider of City & Guilds accredited home study courses in textile arts. Each episode features in depth conversations with textile artists, designers and educators about their creative practice, training and career journey. Subscribe to this channel to catch every new episode of Textile Talk as soon as it is released. #textileart #textileartists #stitchart